We ate our way across the country to find the Best New Restaurants of 2016. These were the best things on the menu. As we spent months bouncing from restaurant to restaurant, eating non-stop for our annual Perfect Night Out piece, some things became clear. That we need to work out more. That the burger is rarely the way to go. And that sometimes a restaurant isn’t amazing, but there’s one thing on the menu that rises above the rest, and leaves you drooling whenever you think back on the first bite. For us, these were those dishes.